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1831007946Paris: Crapelet 1831. SCARCE. In full contemporary red morocco signed "Lebrun Relieur" the back covered with repeating gilt decoration the covers with triple gilt rule outer border and triple gilt rule inner border around gilt tooled floral band and with gilt decorations at corners all edges gilt marbled end papers a lovely example of early 19th century fine French binding. Very Good mInus old dampstain mostly to margins and where in text not affecting legibility rear end page edge chipped small chip to morocco at head of spine. With two fold-out facsimiles at rear one in color. First Edition. Morocco. Very Good Minus/No Jacket As Issued. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Crapelet Hardcover books
1860008436London; Piccadilly: John Camden Hotten 1860. Second Edition Revised 1860 with two thousand additional words. xvi 300 pp including frontis titled A Canter's Map of a Begging District. Bound in publisher's original pebbled brown cloth gilt lettering at spine blind tooled rules and publisher's blind tooled initials center of front and rear covers dark brown end papers. Very Good contemporary ownership signature of R.N. Payne Sheffield 1860 top of title page later owners inked notations top of title page and verso of front end page pencil note bottom verso front end page 2" closed tear fore edge frontis map 1" fore edge tear p. 169 internally clean and bright. SCARCE in today's market in either the 1859 1st or 1860 2nd Editions. One of the most important works on English slang. . Second Edition Revised. Pebbled Cloth . Very Good/No Jacket As Issued. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. John Camden Hotten Hardcover books
1802008944Walpole New Hampshire: Printed for Thomas & Thomas by D. Newhall 1802. "The First Walpole Edition from a Copy of the latest Edition printed in London." No copies in current commerce no auction records at RBH. Bound in contemporary quarter calf over marbled boards 155 pages. Good boards and spine rubbed pages uniformly browned throughout prior owner name small chips at edges of front end page. A complete and solid copy of a RARE Walpole First Edition. Shaw & Shoemaker; Early American Imprints. Second Series ; no. 1728. First Walpole Edition . Quarter Calf. Good. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Printed for Thomas & Thomas, by D. Newhall, Hardcover books
1873WRCAM45233New York 1873. 3681pp. Contemporary black leather cover stamped in gilt expertly rebacked in matching calf. Bookplate on front pastedown library ink stamp on verso of titlepage with discard mark. Internally clean and very good. The books of Proverbs and Ezekiel translated into the Zulu language by the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions. Relatively scarce with fewer than ten copies of either title noted on OCLC and no copies appearing in auction records for the past thirty years. Not in Mendelssohn's SOUTH AFRICAN BIBLIOGRAPHY. hardcover books
1867WRCAM45602New York 1867. 274pp. Original brown publisher's cloth stamped in blind and gilt. Extremities worn library call number on spine. Bookplates on each pastedown several ink stamps on outer leaves. Text clean. Good plus. For use among the missionaries in Africa. Mpongwe was spoken along the Gabun and Ogowe Rivers in French Equatorial Africa. hardcover books
1810WRCLIT76048Philadelphia: Gedrucht bey Jacob Meyer. Für Johnson und Warner Bro. 1810. 36pp. 12mo. Early plain stiff salmon wrappers. Typical scattered foxing and slight offsetting but a very good copy. First edition in this format. The woodcut title-vignette is ascribed to A. Anderson. Seven edifying tales for the young. ROSENBACH 418. SHAW & SHOEMAKER 20192. WELCH 431. BÖTTE & TANNHOF 1770. OCLC 207258103. Gedrucht bey Jacob Meyer. Für Johnson und Warner Bro. unknown books
188652630Leiden: E. J. Brill 1886. First Edition. xxii 327 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Half brown morocco. Bookplate of Max L. Margolis with his signature on title. Somewhat rubbed internally fine. First Edition. xxii 327 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. On Aramaic loan words and phrases in classical Arabic.<br/>With the ownership signature of linguist and scholar of Jewish history Max L. Margolis. E. J. Brill unknown books
1807007942London: J. Johnson R. Baldwin W.J.E.J. Richardson et al. 1807. In two volumes contemporary full calf later expertly rebacked with gilt lettering. Very Good small prior owner label even browning light scattered toning boards rubbed later corner repairs. A solid and well-bound set . 4th Edition. Full Calf. Very Good/No Jacket As Issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. J. Johnson, R. Baldwin, W.J.E.J. Richardson et al., Hardcover books
1892008564Boston: Little Brown and Company 1892. Original brown cloth with gilt lettering and gilt decorations front cover and spine top edge gilt black end papers.The Ninth Edition of this classic work published in 1892 and the last edition edited by Bartlett himself. Very Good Plus small rubs to cloth prior owner name in ink top of title page dated 1894. A quite handsome copy indeed. . Ninth Edition. Cloth. Very Good Plus. Thick 8vo. Little Brown, and Company Hardcover books
1898006557London: Henry Frowde 1898. RARE in the First Edition. Very Good from the collection of the Richard M. Dorson Memorial Library Folklore Institute Indiana University its bookplate namestamp half-title page and blindstamp title page gilt titles and designs cloth a bit faded at spine end pages toned light rubbing to cloth at tips overall a well-cared for and lovely copy. . First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket As Issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Henry Frowde Hardcover books
1857228733Paris: Au Bureau De L'Abeille Medicale 1857. Hard Cover. Very Good binding. 1/4 leather over paper covered boards. Very Good binding. Au Bureau De L'Abeille Medicale unknown books
1825005284Newcastle on Tyne : T. & J. Hodgson for E. Charnley 1825. Engraved armorial dedication lacking the engraved portrait frontispiece. One of 600 copies printed for subscription. . List of subscribers. In 19th century card boards with modern cloth backstrip and paper title label. Very Good boards rubbed and soiled one page has marginal tear top edge. 244 pp. . First Edition. Paper Covered Boards. Very Good/No Jacket As Issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. T. & J. Hodgson, for E. Charnley Hardcover books
1870530Montreal 1870. About very good. 17pp. Quarto. Original plain wrappers bound into contemporary buckram gilt spine label. Light foxing and wear to buckram. Front hinge cracking front endpaper detaching. Two chips at fore-edges of final two leaves not affecting text otherwise internally clean. Accomplished in a neat legible hand. A fascinating if somewhat eccentric manuscript essay on South American linguistic history and its supposed connections to Gaelic languages by a Scottish-Canadian professor at the Presbyterian College of Montreal. John Campbell was principally a professor of church history but was also a serious student of anthropology philology and linguistics and published numerous articles and monographs on a wide variety of subjects. Campbell was born in Edinburgh and immigrated to Montreal via London and Toronto in the 1870s where he was appointed to a professorship in 1873. His wide-ranging publications include scholarly and polemical essays in various academic journals a volume of children's story sermons and a novel set in the Muskoka region of Ontario. His most well-known work was a two volume ethnographic study entitled "The Hittites" in which he claimed that the people were descendants of the Japanese Basques and Peruvians among others. "Later critics with reason considered him an academic dilettante" - Canadian Dictionary of Biography. The present work continues such grandiose thinking and claims a linguistic and genealogical link between the Aymara peoples of Peru and Bolivia and the Celts. Through the comparison of selected words in Aymara Quechua Gaelic and Welsh complete with several tables and appendices Campbell argues that "The large number of words identical in form and meaning in the two languages suffice to establish the common origin of Celts and Aymaras." The essay continues to make additional comparisons with Quechua and cites the research of Hyde Clark as the inspiration for its line of inquiry. Campbell likely prepared this essay as one of his many contributions to Canadian academic journals. In an article he published in the journal of the Royal Society of Canada at the turn of the 20th century he states that 'Some years previous I pointed out a large Celtic element in the dialects of Peru and notably in that of the Aymaras." Hyde Clark references Campbell's theories in this area in his own book "The Khita and Khita-Peruvian Epoch" published in 1877. Nevertheless we are unable to locate a published version of this essay. A strange yet enthusiastic work asserting a tenuous theory of native Peruvian language. unknown books
1850WRCAM41217Park Hill: Mission Press. Edwin Archer printer 1850. 120pp. Lacks pp.17-18 47-48. 12mo. Dbd. Light to moderate foxing and soiling. Several signatures loose. Fair. The fifth edition of this Park Hill imprint printed entirely in Cherokee except for part of the title which is in English; this work uses Sequoyah's syllabary generally called the "Cherokee alphabet". The translators were Samuel Austin Worcester and Elias Boudinot. As a young man living with his parents in New England Worcester had met and become friends with Buck Oowatie a Cherokee whose name among Anglos was Elias Boudinot. Worcester studied for the ministry and after he had been ordained he requested a post among the Cherokee. Once there he set to introducing printing newspapers and expanded literacy using Sequoyah's syllabary. One of only 5000 copies printed. HARGRETT OKLAHOMA 145. PILLING IROQUOIAN p.172. PILLING PROOF SHEETS 4224. AYER INDIAN LINGUISTICS CHEROKEE 7. Mission Press. Edwin Archer, printer unknown books
1867853441867. CHINESE LANGUAGE WADE Thomas Francis. WEN-CHIEN TZU-ERH CHI A SERIES OF PAPERS SELECTED AS SPECIMENS OF DOCUMENTARY CHINESE Designed to Assist Students of the Language as Written by the Officials of China. In Sixteen Parts with Key. London: Trubner & Co. 1867. First edition. Two quarto volumes. xii 456 pp.; iv7252 pp. 30 x 23 cm. The second volume has a separate title-page: KEY TO THE TZU ERH CHI. DOCUMENTARY SERIES. VOLUME I. CONTAINING TRANSLATIONS OF PAPERS 1 TO 75 AND NOTES TO PAPERS 1 TO 65 INCLUSIVE. Depsite the Volume 1 designation there were no further volumes published. Both volumes have the title in Chinese characters at the head of the title-page as well as a contemporary ink ownership of J. E. Woodruff. In worn and rubbed contemporary bindings with marbled sides. Both volumes are missing the original red leather backstrip. The spine of the first volume WEN-CHIEN TZU-ERH CHI has been neatly covered with brown cloth tape and its hinges strengthened with white cloth tape. Additionally Volume 1 shows internal and external evidence of worming. Internally the worm damage is confined to the margins without affecting the text and there are some pencil notes. Sir Thomas Francis Wade 1818-1895 a British soldier turned diplomat and Sinologist was the first professor of Chinese at Cambridge University. He developed a system of romanizing the Chinese language based on pronunciation conventions of the Beijing dialect. The system was later modified by Herbert Giles another diplomat and scholar who had succeeded him as professor of Chinese at Cambridge and became known as the Wade-Giles system. It was widely used throughout much of the twentieth century to represent the sounds of Mandarin in Western publications and is still used to represent some personal and place names. This work was prepared with the express purpose of preparing individuals destined to join Her Majesty's Consular Service in China with the written language of government as it appeared in books and in official correspondence. Cordier III 1689; DNB. unknown books
1871WRCAM27691Victoria: T.N. Hibben & Company 1871. 26pp. Original printed wrappers. Minor soiling to covers else very good or better. The earliest citation for the Chinook Jargon is George Gibbs' 1863 edition for the Smithsonian Institution but even there the preface cites an earlier version furnished by a B.R. Mitchell of the U.S. Navy also for the Smithsonian. The present edition is most likely a reprint of the first Hibben edition around 1871. As trading developed throughout the Pacific Northwest this little volume was in high demand. It was reprinted over fifty times this being one of the earlier editions. PILLING CHINOOKAN pp.21-23 32-33. T.N. Hibben & Company unknown books
1887019059Victoria British Columbia Canada: B.C. Stationery Co. 1887. Book. Very good condition. Paperback. Early edition. Octavo 8vo. 33 pages of text i blank. Original printed wrappers with advertisement on the inside of the covers and on the rear cover; protected in custom-fitted archival mylar. The spine perished and the wrappers were archivally reverse hinged. Some soiling sunning/browning to the extremities and minor creasing. The previous owner's name is neatly on the rear endpaper. Stated "New Edition" with a copyright date of 1877. B.C. Stationery Co. Paperback books
1880WRCAM45684Harbor Springs Mi. 1880. 8pp. 12mo. Original plain wrappers stitched. Minor soiling. Very good plus. Chippewa language alphabet primer and syllabary likely printed at the Franciscan Mission in Harbor Springs where Chippewa and Ottawa children printed numerous prayer books pamphlets and monthly periodicals at the turn of the 20th century. unknown books
1872WRCAM52593Richmond 1872. 252pp. 16mo. Contemporary sheep spine with marbled boards. Spine and corners worn ends chipped. Internally clean. Very good. Styled the "sixth edition" on the titlepage. Hargrett credits this work to Alfred Wright and Cyrus Byington first published in Boston in 1830. Missionaries among the Choctaw for decades they are responsible for a number of works in the Choctaw language. The hymns with translator's initials at the end of each take up the first two hundred pages followed by the Articles of Faith the baptism and marriage rituals twenty-five pages of hymns in English and an index of first lines. GILCREASE-HARGRETT p.123. PILLING MUSKHOGEAN pp.99-100. SABIN 12867 ref. hardcover books
18691785New York: American Bible Society 1869. Very good plus. 65; 47pp. 12mo. Contemporary black morocco stamped in gilt and blind. Corners and spine ends rubbed. Light toning to text. A handsomely bound copy of two books of the Pentateuch printed in Dakota by the American Bible Society. The translator Thomas Williamson 1800-1879 was a doctor and missionary who worked with the Dakota Indians in Minnesota and helped develop the first written alphabet and grammar of the Dakota language. During the Sioux Uprising of 1862 he and his family were protected by Christianized members of the tribe who subsequently helped them escape to safety. He was instrumental in convincing President Lincoln to pardon twenty-five of the men who had been taken prisoner following the revolt and after Lincoln's death he advocating with Andrew Johnson for the pardon and release of the remaining men. The present two works are the first and only stand-alone editions of Exodus and Leviticus in Dakota published by the Bible Society thought they often are bound together as here. The translations appeared again in 1872 in an edition that also included Genesis and Deuteronomy; the entire Bible in Dakota was completed and published in 1879. Scarce. Ayer Dakota 28 Exodus. Pilling Proof Sheets 4160. Pilling Siouan p.78. American Bible Society unknown books
1804007922London: Printed for the Author and Sold By J. Booth 1804. In period James Toovey signed fine binding of gold crushed morocco the back with ornate floral gilt tooled designs and gilt lettering triple gilt rules to covers marbled end papers all edges gilt the armorial bookplate of Johannis Naylor Leightonensis front paste down. Near Fine slight shelf rubs scant toning at end pages a quite handsome book with distinguished provenance. . First Edition. Crushed Morocco. Near Fine/No Jacket As Issued. Tall 8vo. Printed for the Author and Sold By J. Booth Hardcover books
186312138Utrecht: J.G. Broese & Ghent: Willem Rogghe 1863. First edition 2 volumes 8vo; both volumes in contemporary red morocco a.e.g. gilt gilt decorations on covers and spines some staining inside back cover of Vol. I some rubbing light staining on covers and spines else fine. Proceedings from the fourth and seventh Dutch language scholars' congress held in Utrecht. The discussions include lectures on rewriting the Dutch grammar tautology education Dutch and Flemish dialects plus some original poetry. <br/><br/> J.G. Broese & Ghent: Willem Rogghe unknown books
1846253449Paris: P. Boizarad Editeur Successeur De G. Kugelmann 1846. Hard Cover. Very Good binding. Illustre De 200 Dessins Par Les Artistes Les Plus Distingues; No pencil or ink markings in text. Light scattered foxing in text. Black cloth spine; green cloth boards. Gilt lettering on spine. Text written in French. Corners bumped. of book ; Previous Owner Name;. Very Good binding. P. Boizarad, Editeur, Successeur De G. Kugelmann unknown books
188837326Cleveland: Lauer & Mattill 1888. First Edition. Octavo 20.5cm.; publisher's blue-green decorative cloth stamped in black; 4492pp.; frontispiece pictorial ads bound in at front and end of textblock. Boards rather rubbed and worn textblock uniformly toned due to poor paperstock childish pencil scribbles to preliminaries frontispiece starting to separate. Overall an About Very Good only copy. Text entirely in German blackletter. Lauer & Mattill unknown books
189947658Chicago: Tiskem a Nákladem Aug. Geringera 1899. First Edition. Octavo 26cm.; original color lithograph wrappers; 240pp.; double frontispiece illus. throughout. Wrapper extremities chipped and a bit dog-eared with loss at both spine ends slightly affecting upper cover extremities a bit toned else Good to Very Good. Text entirely in Czech. Czech-American literary almanac including a daily calendar cartoons poetry jokes short stories and articles on major events of the year in this case the ongoing Dreyfus Affair and the Philippine-American War. Short stories includes tales set among the early Czech settlers of Texas Nebraska and Chicago. Uncommon item in the lovely color lithographic wrappers signed "Nádherny" in image. Tiskem a Nákladem Aug. Geringera unknown books
